Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tuneo Ishihara

Hisashi Masuda

Yoshiki Ishige

Shoji Sato

Yoji Ushiki

Kunio Kishino

Junichi Saita

Syuno Kumagai

Masayosi Uchida

An automobile bumper comprises a bumper face and a bumper beam constructed of members molded of thermoplastic resin. The bumper beam includes at least two members of thermoplastic resin having flanges for forming beam flanges together when the members are fused to each other, the beam flanges being fused to an inner surface of the bumper face. An FRP sheet is continuously heated in an atmosphere having a temperature successively lowered from a temperature higher than a resin melting temperature at which a resin of the FRP sheet is melted so that the entire FRP sheet is increased through successive heating stages to a temperature between the resin melting temperature and a resin degradation temperature at which the resin of the FRP sheet is degraded. Heaters are brought into close proximity with joining surfaces to be fused of at least two parts of synthetic resin with a prescribed spacing therebetween for melting the joining surfaces, and thereafter the melted joining surfaces are pressed against each other to fuse the parts together. At least one of the at least two parts comprises an FRP product made of glass fibers reinforced with a thermoplastic resin, the joining surfaces of the FRP product having a plurality of projections containing the thermoplastic resin only, the projections being melted when the parts are fused together.

Automobile bumper constructed of fused resin members

Method of and apparatus for fusing resin members such as bumper beam and

An apparatus including a treating container having at its inner lower portion a space for containing a charge of synthetic resin powder. An agitator is provided therein having an agitation blade means for spattering upwards the charged layer of synthetic resin powder. A metallic mold is provided thereabove closing an upper surface of the treating container. The metallic mold is provided with a downwardly directed molding mold surface for facing the charged powder layer. The mold surface thereof is arranged to be selectively heated or cooled at will. This invention is characterized in that a rotary frame is provided on one side of the treating container, at least two of the metallic molds are so disposed on the rotary frame as to be at rotationally symmetrical positions, and the treating container is so arranged as to be retreated outside the rotation loci of these metallic molds.

Multi-mold molding apparatus for producing a molded skin product

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Saitama, Japan

Tuneo Ishihara